Dr. Dog

Babette Cole. Dragonfly Books, $6.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-679-88548-1

This ""off-color, disjointed tale"" with a medical pretext is ""likely to inspire hilarity in the toilet-humor crowd,"" said PW. Ages 4-6. (Mar.)

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